How to Install and Uninstall libmtp-dev Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "libmtp-dev" package

Learn how to install libmtp-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libmtp-dev
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libmtp-dev" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall libmtp-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libmtp-dev
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libmtp-dev package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: libmtp-dev
Priority: optional
Section: libdevel
Installed-Size: 65
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Alessio Treglia
Architecture: amd64
Source: libmtp
Version: 1.1.10-2ubuntu1
Depends: libmtp9 (= 1.1.10-2ubuntu1), libusb-1.0-0-dev
Filename: pool/main/libm/libmtp/libmtp-dev_1.1.10-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 9854
MD5sum: 12977bfe6aa91892a267b81a8c6b2d05
SHA1: aff0feebc819ea31df424c5caab9434d46618efe
SHA256: ba2de5d0f74a236756fdc4463de4891127b0fd04c792bf58aaea0fb34a931bf3
Description-en: Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) development files
libmtp is a library for communicating with MTP aware devices in POSIX
compliant operating systems. It implements MTP Basic, the subset
proposed for standardization.
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The Media Transfer Protocol (commonly referred to as MTP) is a devised
set of custom extensions to support the transfer of music files on
USB digital audio players and movie files on USB portable media players.
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This package contains the headers and development libraries.
Description-md5: 76d0f6320c50c3629a9f1d9cd6ba427a
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: http://libmtp.sourceforge.net/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 9m